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Re: XFS data corruption 2

To: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS data corruption 2
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 12:51:15 -0800
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 08:41:00PM +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:

> today we've had power failure again I've noticed that I've got
> binary nulls in files last modified 19 minutes ago the power
> failure.

metadata is journalled --- not data; if you write to a file and crash
(for example) you may see null bytes at the end of the file or similar

> Is that ok?

depends on your application; many applications know about these things
and will deal with it one way or another (eg. mail software and
databases).

> Or there is a bug in xfs recovery?

no



  --cw


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